Library Science

Library science (often termed library studies or library and information science) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information.

Cher connard
Brat
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)
Role Play
The Last Sane Woman
The Library: A Fragile History
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
The Wickedest
The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library
Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir
Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization
We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World
Foundations of Library and Information Science
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series)
Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century : An Introduction
Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction
Library: An Unquiet History
Reference and Information Services: An Introduction (Library & Information Science Text)
Library and Information Center Management
Developing Library and Information Center Collections
Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management
The Library Book
Librarian's Guide to Online Searching
From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
Introduction to Cataloging and Classification

S.E. Harmon
In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History.
S.E. Harmon, Stay with Me

Marilyn Johnson
A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a "true reflection of our history," whether it's a brick-and-mortar building constructed a century ago or a fanciful arrangement of computer codes. The librarian is the organizer, the animating spirit behind it, and the navigator. Her job is to create order out of the confusion of the past, even as she enables us to blast into the future. ...more
Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

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